Some “art” work for my homebrew! A bit of a random post, but I’d like to think that I am very thorough with my brews! From the sanitation to the labelling. I am lagging behind the label making, but I will catch up as soon as I have some time.

Nothing went to waste on this brew: The Malt was used to fertilize my plum/pear trees and make bread, the spent hops used as mulch for my chili trees, the boiled bananas for jam and the banana peels for cake and the leftover for compost!

What makes it chocolate-y? The chocolate malt grain for chocolate/coffee and slightly bitter taste;

What makes it banana-y? I used a whole bunch of chopped bananas during the boil;

What makes it an ale? Most of the grain used was Pale Malt; and used Ale Yeast;

To taste? Fuggles Hops

I don’t want high carbonation, so kegging the 10L seemed like much, much less work! I will update you on the progress!

I had some grains that were about to go off and I decided to make a small batch to see if they are still good. This was highly experimental and I am not sure if it will work, sooooooo, please wait on updates before trying out the recipe!

Ingredients:

500g of Pale Malt (grain)

500g of Crystal Malt (grain)

360g of Fresh Grapes

25g Fuggles Hops

220g of Dextrose

280g of Honey

Writing this, I guess most of the sugar comes from dextrose and honey, rather than the grains, which is not ideal, but ah well! Let’s see the outcome! Yield: 5L, OG: 1040